ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY USING

POLYMER
Amir Soheil Mahiboob Shaikh
Shreekumar Paranjape
 THREE STAGES OF OIL RECOVERY

• Primary Recovery — In Primary Recovery, oil isforced out by pressure generated

from gas present in the oil.

• Secondary Recovery — In Secondary Recovery, the reservoir is subjected to water

flooding or gas injection to maintain a pressure that continues to move oil to the
surface.

• Tertiary Recovery — Tertiary Recovery, also known as Enhanced Oil Recovery

(EOR), introduces fluids that reduce viscosity and improve flow.
 HOW MUCH MORE OIL CAN WE PRODUCE FROM
OUR OIL OLD FIELD AND WELLS?

 Would increasing your oil production from 5 bbls/day to 10 bbls/day for a 100%
increase in oil production make a difference to company?

 How about going from 10 bbls/day to 50 bbls/day for a 500% increase in oil
production.
 ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY

 It’s a process for recovering mostly every Barrels of Oil to get out all of remaining
oil in it.

 And this is done by EOR technologies .

 ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY

 Mainly the following process are done for Enhanced oil recovery

• Water injection

• Gas injection

• Reducing residual oil saturation, SOR (alcohol, polymers, surfactants injection)

• Thermal: steam injection (to heating of the reservoir to lower the viscosity)
 POLYMER FLOODING

Benifits
• Improved oil recovery

• Increased "sweep efficiency"

• less water required when compared with typical water-flooding & steam injection

• Superior EOR technology with "heavy oil" formations/reservoirs with low viscosity
and where Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) is not suitable
 HOW DOES POLYMER FLOODING WORK?

 Oil and water are "immiscible" do not mix or blend with each other. This means that
oil and water can NOT displace the other within an oil reservoir.

 In polymer flooding, a water-soluble polymer such as Polyacrylamide or "Pam" is

added to the water in the waterflood. This increases the viscosity of the water to that
of a gel making the oil and water greatly improving the efficiency of the waterflood.
HOW DOES POLYMER FLOODING WORK?
HOW DOES POLYMER FLOODING WORK?
 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

 Enhanced oil recovery wells typically produce large quantities of brine at the surface.
The brine may contain toxic metals and radioactive substances, as well as being very
salty. This can be very damaging to drinking water sources and the environment
generally if not properly controlled.
 EOR RESULTS

 The United States will recover more than 300 Billion Barrels of Oil through
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technologies according to the Department of Energy.

 In the next 10-15 years, 50% of the oil produced in the USA will be through
Enhanced Oil Recovery technologies. And 50% of this amount will be produced by
CO2-EOR.
 REFRENCES

 http://www.polymerflooding.com/
 http://rockenergy.ca/Technologies/Tertiary-Recovery/index.php
 http://www.azuren-eor.com/eor/chemical-eor/
 http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Enhanced_oil_recovery